Lessons Learned From Gaming

There has been a lot of buzz recently about gaming in education, but I haven't paid that much attention to be honest. This article, however, focuses less on the act of playing video games, but rater what we can learn from gaming and how we can take these ideas and apply them in our classrooms. Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible suggests 4 principles that can be applied to education:

1. Don't shoot the player while she's learning.
2. Learning is social.
3. A strong sense of community creates safety.
4. Learning that empowers the learner makes it irresistible.

How can you do (or what do you do already) to make learning irresistible?!